slavery

During the 1700s some people in Great Britain came to think that slavery was wrong. They began the abolitionist movement, an effort to end slavery. Both Britain and the United States banned the slave trade in the early 1800s. Starting with Vermont in 1777, the northern parts of the United States banned slavery entirely.

However, the large Southern plantations continued to rely on slave labor. Some slaves escaped through a secret organization called the Underground Railroad,…

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